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    The First Mission (Splicers 1)
    The First Mission (Splicers 1)
    The First Mission (Splicers 1)
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    The First Mission (Splicers 1)

    By Eve Hathaway

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    From the Publisher that brought you popular short story series Witching Call, Hostile Hearts, Earthbound Angels, The January Morrison Files Psychic Series, The Eve Snow Psychic P.I. Series, Ralph's Gift, Children of Time, Children of Two Futures, The Magaram Legends, Chains of Darkness, Song of Teeth, Tropical Storms and Friend Zone. And now, Splicers Series...

    POWERS SPLICED TOGETHER, SCIONS AND STOCK ARE US, THIS IS HOW WE BEGIN
    THE FIRST MISSION

    “The overloaded color spectrum flashed violently in front of his eyes as he felt a vacuum form where his aura had burst.”

    After years of training among splicers—a secluded community of people able to make auras of energy surround their bodies and burst into concussive blasts—Madrigale is ready to run away.

    She has failed to become a successful splicer at every attempt while it comes so naturally to other students. They have been taught that their power comes from their communion with one another, which troubles Madrigale even more, an outsider among a close-knit population.

    On the eve of her escape, however, her instructors pair her with Logan, the best splicer among her peers, and the two receive an assignment to escort a group of visitors, who made a recent pilgrimage to the tower where the splicers live, back home through a countryside riddled with bandits and an unforgiving wilderness. Now with the perfect opportunity to never return, Madrigale must decide between her responsibilities and her true desires, and she must decide if she can bring herself to risk Logan’s life and the lives of innocent visitors in order to escape.

    She is nearly certain that she very well can.

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    Within the shelf of the tower that Illoso called home, he wiped the sweat from the corners of his eyes and glanced at his watch. Hours had passed since the performance, and now the different families and groups of people who had made the pilgrimage to the Ether Edifice began to take their first steps back home. Now was the most critical time to speak to these people. He had organized this entire event so the splicers could form stronger ties with the surrounding towns, which would give them all more resources, more order, and, most importantly, more protection against the legions of bandits haunting the wilderness between their distant communities.

    The time had come to send splicers to visit the homelands of these travelers. He had to get to the central platform of the Ether Edifice to begin the selection process.

    Illoso stepped off the balcony toward the hollow center of the tower without hesitation or concern for the one-hundred-foot drop below him.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSandra Ross
    Release dateSep 8, 2013
    ISBN9781301467280
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      The First Mission (Splicers 1) - Eve Hathaway

      The First Mission (Splicers 1)

      By Eve Hathaway

      Published by Publications Circulations LLC.

      SmashWords Edition

      All contents copyright (C) 2013 by Publications Circulations LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this document or the related files may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, companies and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.

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      Chapter One

      THE THREADBARE SACK slipped from Madrigale's loose grip and glided away from the balcony like a dark sail over the performers below. Her young fingers reached for it momentarily, but she lost her balance and had to cling to the talons of the gargoyle beside her to keep from toppling over the stonework balustrade, straight to the center of the action.

      Pressing her messy dark hair back, she watched the sack descend upon the performers with the violent speed of the wind. These strong gusts have been assailing her at that height, atop the ancient architecture of the bell tower for the past hour. She held her breath and tightly seized the gargoyle's rugged wing.

      In a perimeter around the eastern face of the building, a crowd had gathered to watch the performers from her trade school display their feats of power. Soon, the sack would either collide with one of her fellow students or an innocent bystander. She begged for the wind to carry it away from the people, and to save her from the embarrassment that was sure to follow.

      The wind refused her pleas.

      It twisted the cloth with a rogue gust and emptied some of the damp leaves from inside until its contents cascaded down upon the onlookers.

      Madrigale cringed at the volley of debris she had just unleashed.

      Madrigale Audler had not come to her trade school, the Ether Edifice, today for the same reason that attracted the rest of the crowd. The spectacle planned for the tourists below would truly be a magnificent display of her peoples' culture-a way of life that taught its community to graft energies together through their spirits and minds, just like scion and stock.

      But she was here to work, not to entertain or to show people the beauty of her field of study.

      Illoso, her mentor in splicing mystical energies, had given her this task of collecting leaves from the highest points on the gargantuan building and packing them away into the sack. She was surprised at how many leaves had managed to scale to that height, but the strength and unpredictability of the wind around the Ether Edifice explained how much work she still had to do.

      Illoso had told her that the landmark had to be so pristine that it would never fail to impress the visitors with the same staggering glory that they must have heard about from other splicers, who had traveled to find these outsiders and bring them to this wondrous site.

      Nonetheless, it was a thankless job, and as she watched the sack drifting headlong toward the audience with the weight of the few soaked leaves still in its bowels. She knew then that she had failed even this simple duty. Failure in her classwork had gotten her this job, and now her punishment would probably escalate to something much worse.

      This linen-comet that she had accidentally dropped veered away from the crowd and finally found a target among the performers-who it was exactly, she could not yet tell. Madrigale's eyes widened as she exhaled at last with its abrupt impact.

      Just as the leaves were about to burst on the head of one of the performers, an emerald light appeared around the man, and the cloth shattered like an explosion of brittle pottery, each shred illuminated with the same greenish glow until they dispersed into the air and safely arced away from the audience. The crowd clapped and cheered at this unexpected display of mystical pageantry.

      Illoso looked up at her through the green aura surrounding his body and smiled. He shook his head and returned to his performance.

      Madrigale groaned.

      She knew Illoso would never let her become a real splicer at this rate.

      WITHIN THE shelf of the tower that Illoso called home, he wiped the sweat from the corners of his eyes and glanced at his watch.

      Hours had passed since the performance, and now the different families and groups of people who had made the pilgrimage to the Ether Edifice began to take their first steps back home.

      Now was the most critical time to speak to these people.

      He had organized this entire event so the splicers could form stronger ties with the surrounding towns. Stronger ties with them would mean more resources, more order, and most importantly, more protection against the legions of bandits haunting the wilderness between their distant communities.

      The time had come to send splicers to visit the homelands of these travelers. He had to get to the central platform of the Ether Edifice to begin

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